Sir Christopher Wren: 'It is not what you know, it is who you know'

‘It is not what you know, it is who you know’, this phrase rings true for Sir Christopher Wren’s career and his relationship with the royal family.

This is an extract from the full-length lecture by Professor Simon Thurley, “Sir Christopher Wren: Buildings, Place and Genius”: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/sir-christopher-wren-buildings-place-and-genius

Professor Simon Thurley, former Provost of Gresham College

Professor Simon Thurley CBE

Visiting Professor of the Built Environment

Professor Thurley is a leading architectural historian, a regular broadcaster and was, for thirteen years and Visiting Gresham Professor of the Built Environment.

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